The Vatican released a document on artificial intelligence signed by Pope Leo XIV, but a journalist noticed it contained the pangram "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," raising questions about whether AI was used to write a text cautioning against AI's risks. The Vatican press office denied the pope used AI, calling the pangram a coincidence.
Simon Willison's notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on AI, which addresses ethical challenges around interpretability, cultural biases, environmental impact, algorithmic decision-making, accountability, and data ownership. Willison also highlights his earlier prediction that the Pope would weigh in on AI's economic impact, which came true with the document's release.
Corey Quinn commented that getting the Pope to frame a company's technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is an unprecedented act of vendor lobbying, referencing Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah's influence on the papal encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas*.